Kristen A. Fichthorn is an American chemical engineer and condensed matter physicist
Kristen Fichthorn | |
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| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania University of Michigan |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemical engineering physics |
| Institutions | Penn State College of Engineering |
whose research involves computational simulation, multiscale modeling, and molecular dynamics of interfaces, thin films, colloids, catalysis, nanostructures, and other material processes.[1] She is the Merrell Fenske Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Physics at Pennsylvania State University.[2]
Early life and education
editFichthorn has a 1985 bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and completed her Ph.D. in chemical engineering in 1989 at the University of Michigan.[2]
After a year of postdoctoral research at the University of California, Santa Barbara, supported by IBM, Fichthorn joined the Pennsylvania State University faculty as an assistant professor in 1990.[1]
Since 1986, Fichthorn has authored or co-authored 292 articles and papers on interfaces and surfaces.[3]
Career and research
editFichthorn's research focus on applying atomistic simulation techniques, such as Monte Carlo methods and molecular dynamics, quantum mechanics, and condensed-matter theory to study materials interfaces.
Fichthorn's research interest include:
- Computational Materials and Nanomaterials
- Multi-scale materials simulation
- Quantum density functional theory
- Molecular dynamics
- Monte Carlo analysis
- Thin film and crystal growth
- Liquid-solid interfaces[4]
Publications
edit- Miao Song, Jianming Cui, Colin Ophus, Jaewon Lee, Tianyu Yan, Kristen A Fichthorn and Dongsheng Li, 2024, "Tensile Strain Induces Consecutive Dislocation Slipping, Plane Gliding, and Subsequent De-twinning of Penta-Twinned Nanoparticles", Nano Letters, 24, (4), pp. 1153–1159
- Tianyu Yan, Huaizhong Zhang and Kristen A Fichthorn, 2023, "Minimum Free-Energy Shapes of Ag Nanocrystals: Vacuum vs Solution", ACS Nano, 17, (19), pp. 19288-19304
- Jianming Cui, Saksham Phul and Kristen A Fichthorn, 2023, "Diffusion Growth Mechanism of Penta-Twinned Ag Nanocrystals from Decahedral Seeds", Journal of Chemical Physics, 158, (16), pp. 164707 (10 pages)
- Dongsheng Li, Qian Chen, Jaehun Chun, Kristen A Fichthorn, James De Yoreo and Haimei Zheng, 2023, "Nanoparticle Assembly and Oriented Attachment: Correlating Controlling Factors to the Resulting Structures", Chemical Reviews, 123, (6), pp. 3127-3159[5]
Awards and recognitions
editFichthorn was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2010, after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for simulations that revealed new phenomena in the kinetics of reaction systems, self-assembly of nanostructures, and diffusion in mesoporous systems".[6] She became a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2017.[7]
She was the recipient of the 2019 Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers,[8] and one of two 2020 Langmuir Lecturers of the American Chemistry Society Colloid & Surface Division.[9]
She received NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1990 which is recognized by Penn State for her outstanding research and teaching.[10]
Further honors
edit- Langmuir Lectureship, Division of Colloid and Surface Science, American Chemical Society, August 2020
- Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, August 2019
- Premier Research Award, Penn State Engineering Alumni Society, October 2017
- Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, June 2017
References
edit- ^ a b Kristen Fichthorn, AIChE, 29 July 2019, retrieved 2023-07-12
- ^ a b "Kristen Fichthorn", Directory, Penn State Chemical Engineering, retrieved 2023-07-12
- ^ "Kristen A Fichthorn". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-01-12.
- ^ "Kristen Fichthorn". Penn State Department of Materials Science and Engineering. 17 July 2018. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
- ^ "Chemical Engineering | Directory Detail | Penn State Engineering". www.che.psu.edu. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
- ^ "Fellows nominated in 2010 by the Division of Condensed Matter Physics", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2023-07-12
- ^ "Highlights from Fall 2017 Fellows Breakfast I" (PDF), AIChE Fellows Newsletter, AIChE, p. 3, Winter 2018
- ^ Oberdick, Jamie (11 December 2019), Chemical engineering professor receives nanoscale science and engineering award, Penn State Chemical Engineering, retrieved 2023-07-12
- ^ Oberdick, Jamie (8 September 2020), Chemical engineering professor awarded Langmuir Lectureship, Penn State College of Engineering, retrieved 2023-07-12
- ^ "Kristen Fichthorn". www.aiche.org. 29 July 2019. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
External links
edit- Fichthorn group: Multiscale materials simulation
- Kristen Fichthorn publications indexed by Google Scholar